Getting caught up

Last Saturday was a beautiful day so, of course, the kids wanted to be outside all day.

They played in the back of the truck.




They drank gatorade and got pink mustaches.


Played with Marpie.




They all took turns riding on the lawn mower. I wish I had pictures of all the kids because they were all in heaven!
Especially Max. He is our little daddy's boy and always wants to be doing whatever he's doing.




In other news. Kirsten got a 100%+ on her spelling test, which I completely forgot to have her study for. She said she just paid attention really well.


Her New Year's resolution from school.


Max got a little plastic thing (I don't know what else to call it) to go around his neck to help stretch out that one side. I hope he won't always lean his head to the left.


One of Colton's projects from school from when they were learning about jobs.


Kirsten's art.


Max just looking cute.

Chuck E Cheese

Grammy left to go on her mission a couple of weeks ago. She had a great time at the MTC for 2 weeks and left for Africa on Friday. Before she left she took us to Chuck E. Cheese. We all had a great time.

Grammy took all of these pictures so we didn't get any of her with the kids.





Kirsten had so much fun playing all the games and making lots of those little cards with her picture on it.


Colton pretty much wanted to watch this train game the whole time.

Valentine's Day

We started Valentine's Day off with some red velvet pancakes I've been dying to make, doesn't that sound delicious? Well they weren't; the kids wouldn't even eat them...
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We went to Kirsten's school for her Valentine's Day party. The kids had so much fun decorating cookies, eating, and checking out their Valentine's.




The boys hanging out at the party.


We had our traditional fondue.


I made Jonathan one of his favorite's, fruit pizza.


These guys got swords for Valentine's day. Nothing says Valentine's Day like a sword fight right? They had so much fun with them. Max even joined in.








Some of Colton's art projects from school.



Kirsten had really great time with this little guy. She made him a square and triangle friend and played with them for hours.

Snow Day

Last Monday it finally looked like Winter around here. The kids were out of school so they put on their snow pants and headed outside. Colton lasted only a few minutes because it was freezing!


Kirsten and Daddy stayed out long enough to make this snowman.


Max loved walking around in the snow.







Kirsten loves doing experiments so I thought it would be fun to show her how to make marshmallows. I've never made them either so it was an experiment for me too. They were a huge mess we had marshmallow cream all over the kitchen but it was a pretty neat process.


I saw on Pinterest some ideas for a Minute to Win It Valentine's edition game. So that's what we did for FHE after Kirsten told us a story about Penguins who fell in love. We took turns wrapping each other in toilet paper.










Stacking conversation hearts.


Throwing marshmallows in a bowl and moving conversation hearts with a pencil from one bowl to the other. It was quite fun I must say.


Max kept putting conversation hearts in his mouth and then spiting them out. So Colton would pick them up and try to clean them off.

Last couple weeks

Kirsten made her Valentine's and box on Saturday. She is getting so big. She did it all by herself and really did want her picture taken to document it so she was being a little silly.

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Max looked cute eating his pancakes the other day.




There are days when the first thing these boys do when we get home is take their pants off. For the most part they love playing together. Max really likes to push Colton's buttons and he loves to turn the light off to get Colton's reaction. And yes that is food all over Max's face.









Rachel made me a delicious dinner for my birthday. The kids were really excited that they got to see their new snake eat. it was pretty disgusting.


Jonathan heard about this restaurant in Tulsa that had trains everywhere so we decided we better take Colton to it. As expected, he loved it. He kept saying "mommy hurry up" and pointing to a train he wanted to go look at.






Going on a walk a couple weeks ago. There are a few empty lots in the back of our neighborhood that are perfect for throwing rocks and playing in dirt. Colton also liked the "tunnel". This is when the weather was still amazing!

Colton has a one track mind. He's been singing a lot lately. When he sings he gets really into it. His voice drops a few octaves and he totally rocks out. His favorite songs..."the itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spout. Down came the train goes round and round and round and round." and "jingle bells, jingle bells, ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding the train's comin' around". I have got to get it on video it's so funny.